Labour against Empire

I hope there’s an afterlife so that whoever made this pot 2,000 years ago can brag that their cookware is so good it’s still usable literally millennia later. Something about this object being lost for centuries and then rediscovered, and being put (successfully) to its original purpose again is so pleasing to me.

flirting with a tumblr girl is like ohh yeah girl your beauty is so. morguelike and your uh tendencies vampiric. cannibalistic even. well im not really sure about murder suicide yet but a dinner at cracker barrel sounds nice

By the way the reason you should care about AAA games being horridly broken and unstable isn't just because you're being ripped off, but because it's the most common sign of horrific workplace practices like crunch that are absolutely abusive management and which both lead to shittier games and more importantly, the ruined health or even deaths of the actual game developers.

I assure you no game dev actually working on a major project is "lazy". You can't survive the industry if you aren't 100% passionate about it, because it's all the difficulty of software engineering for shittier pay and MUCH angrier customers who are willing to find you and call up your house with death threats over Call of Duty.

One of my past bosses worked on the original Far Cry. He told us about how development reached a point where many devs never went home in order to finish the game, and the sheer exhaustion destroyed their ability to even talk coherently in meetings. Then when my former boss went home after the game had released, some freak of a player discovered that he had been responsible for a particular feature that the gamer hated (unstated here since I'm not sure if I'm allowed to say what exactly), and the guy sent a long message about how they were going to find him and do things to his mother (you can imagine what they said for yourself).

That was the last straw and what led to my past boss leaving AAA game dev forever.

Nobody working there is lazy. Nobody working there might even be sane to be able to put up with abuse and garbage pay like that (and even worse) using the same skills that can get them hired in software with triple the pay instead.

When the game you were looking forward to sucks ass and barely runs it's not because the people behind it were fucking "lazy", it's because they haven't been home in months working to meet impossible deadlines set by management who know that no matter what, sales are generated by hype and brand recognition over actual quality anyway.

love when a dynamic is like. this would be deeply toxic for anyone else but considering the people involved this is actually far and away the healthiest option

if you are afraid of getting older and aging you are going to be miserable your whole life because the majority of your life you sre going to spend being older than 25 btw

also as someone who is disabled in my early 20s the way people talk about aging is so insulting. oh you think life is only valuable when youre young and able bodied? right, so now tell me how you feel about eugenics. quickly.

since we're all talking abt newcomers and stuff, when did you guys first join tumblr

for me it was back in like 2014 (i think) when i was in my twenty one pilots phase and didnt know how tumblr worked but i saw funny memes of it on facebook

i then tried to make a #inspirational quotes from animes and cartoons account where i just yoinked stuff from google images lmfao

I have been desperately waiting for christain “unhinged method actor who is all about the process” bale to spill the tea about his experience on marvel set, and that day has come

you have GOT to start acting like people online are also people

I get that its useful to refer to online spaces vs real life spaces, but fun fact, online is actually real life. Those are real people your talking to, who are going about their lives with families and jobs and obligations and commitments and opinions who happened to tap a keyboard a few times in your general direction.

Shout out to all your internet friends who are gone.

Those messenger screen names that haven’t logged on in ages, some before detailed profiles were a thing on those services.

Those emails that are long since abandoned, some with domains that no longer exist.

Those online friends you knew years ago and who then helped shaped you in some way, who you just can’t FIND anymore.

Those people who once were, and hopefully still exist IRL, that seem to have no known internet life anymore.

And those who have actually passed on, and their online lives are now a memorial to them.

I miss you all. I hope life is/was kind to you, and maybe one day, we’ll somehow connect again.

the plan was to come back to this site and take my shoes off like it’s my cozy living room but now im trying to ignore that my name and work are fully attached to anything i post here and i still have thousands of followers from 2013-2014… its like do i put on my pjs or do i promote my upcoming book. do i promote my upcoming book in my pjs.

thank you for the kind responses… i am in my pjs. i have a 500-page (!!!) graphic novel coming out in january. it takes place in a world where you can buy and sell wishes. the more expensive a wish is, the more powerful its ability to fulfill your desire.

it is a very big chunky book published by pantheon, the publishers of graphic novels such as maus and persepolis. you can pre-order it here!!

the story is about a man who runs a street kiosk in cairo who has three first-class wishes he refuses to use because he thinks wishes are haram (religiously impermissible). due to his debts, he decides to sell them at a huge discount. the book is about the people who buy each of his wishes. aziza, a widow who wants to make a wish in her husband’s memory. nour, a student who wants to cure their depression, and finally the kiosk owner himself has to face his determination never to use a wish after he finds out one of his good friends is dying.

here are some pictures of it (it’s in black & white w sections in color):

it was originally published in egypt as a trilogy of arabic graphic novels over the past five years. it is read from right to left as it was originally drawn bc pantheon were cool about it.

once again, you can pre-order it here!

crumbling totalitarian regime with near-total state control over nation's media using the death of an elderly monarch (whose family stole billions in wealth for themselves) to crush dissent amongst the citizenry

If you think this is a joke, the RMT has already called off their strike in response to the news, as well as the ASLEF, CWU, and TSSA strikes. Whether it's out of genuine cowing to ideology, or simply the fact that, right now, the entire nation is being kicked into complete lockstep, the effect is the same. I would seriously expect a couple arrests in the next weeks over shitposting, let alone any public demos.

Musn’t forget a march protesting the murder of an unarmed black man, Chris Kaba, was reported by sky news as a pro-monarchy march rather than a protest against police violence!

Now that the Parasite in chief has had her platinum Jubilee, i thought id share some fun facts about the monarchy in the UK and the Queen in particular. All of this information is easily found online.

-The Queen negotiated clauses in the equality and Diversity Act so she wouldn't have to hire 'coloured or foreign' staff in the palace. that clause is still there today.

-The Queen tried to use The State Poverty Fund to heat Buckingham Palace even with her own personal fortune.

-She lobbied the Scottish Parliament 67 times to ensure that new wildlife protections laws woudn't apply to her estates there.

-The main throne she sits on is worth an estimated £40,000,000,000. Her jewellery Collection worth circa £5,000,000,000 made with 28, 578 diamonds and gemstones, almost all of which were stolen from countries Britain invaded and enslaved...sorry colonised. She also banned the Police from searching her estates for stolen artifacts.

-Her crown estate is one of the largest property owners in the country. It has over 26 Royal residencies, inc 9 palaces that remain mostly empty and property portfolio that generates £300 million per year. Yet she had a family thrown out during the covid eviction ban for a £32 unpaid bill.

Her son is a nonce ( pedophile) that she protected through a £12 million payout.

-The 'free' book that was sent to every school to tell kids how wonderful the queen is cost the taxpayer £12 million.

-She has £420 million personal wealth, which doesn't include that for-mentioned crown estate or her antique furniture or her jewellery collection or all the stolen gold.

-She and her family cost the tax payer £345 million per year in security and other protections.

-The jubilee cost the tax payer £28 million , set aside by the chancellor for the purpose of funding it. Whilst there are currently 14.5 million people living in poverty here in the UK.

Celebrating the incredibly rich, racist and privileged whilst millions of our own citizens are suffering is disgusting.

Some sources:

- Buckingham Palace banned ethnic minorities from office roles, papers reveal (2021) (the article says that there is no longer a ban as of the 1990s, however the clause is still there to allow a ban.)

- Queen asked for poverty grant to heat palaces (2010)

- Revealed: Queen vetted 67 laws before Scottish parliament could pass them (2021) (It's unknown if any of the laws were amended due to her lobbying, but the lawmakers were required to get her approval.)

- Revealed: police barred from searching Queen's estates for looted artefacts (2021)

- Hampton Court mews row: Couple face eviction 'over £32 bill' (2020) (The tenant was using a communal socket to power his electric car.)

- Prince Andrew settles US civil sex assault case with Virginia Giuffre (2022) Prince Andrew pays settlement ending sex assault case (2022) (Guiffre was 17 at the time of the assault. The settlement was initially estimated at 12-14 million, in which case he probably couldn't have afforded it (without the Queen's help?), but some reports say that it was as little as 3 million by the end. IDK I couldn't find anything firm from a reputable source.)

- Queen’s jubilee book for schools to cost £12m (2021)

A collection of the Gloryhammer shirts I got Thursday night, what an absolute insane day AND night that was, incredible performance with a big special thanks to Ben xxx

Reblog pls I'm very hot

As some of you may know, I recently lost my husband in a very tragic and violent way. Our family has been amazing through all of this, and they’ve set up a GoFundMe to cover some of the expenses. Please, don’t feel obligated to donate - it would warm my heart just to know that people are reading about what an amazing guy Ryan was - but people have been asking for a way to help, so here it is. 

I love all of you. Please hold your loved ones a little closer. for me. 

https://gofund.me/fb42a441

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"I wasted my 20s", cool man, just in time for all the gay sex and weird tattoos you're about to have in your 30s